The impact of changing forest composition in Europe

Anna, Peter, Carolina and Almut, together with colleagues from the Plant Ecophysiology group, the University of Lund and the Technical University of Munich, published the study "The impact of changing forest composition in Europe - longest carbon turnover time in unmanaged and broadleaved deciduous forests" in the journal PLOS ONE. The modelling study uses LPJ-GUESS to simulate different management scenarios in European forests, differing in the type of species replanted after harvesting. Ecosystem carbon turnover time was then analysed, and the results show that broadleaf deciduous forests, together with unmanaged forests, retain carbon in the ecosystem for the longest time. The full article is available (open access) here.